Life is short, yet sweet.
High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.
Your very silence shows you agree.
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.
Let mortal man keep to his ownMortality, and not expect too much.
Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
Women's love is for their men, not for their children.
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.
The life of men is painful.
The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
Love's all in all to women.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
No one who lives in error is free.
Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.
Enough is abundance to the wise.
Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.
I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.
When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.
In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.
Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.
The language of truth is simple.
Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.
It would not be better if men got what they wanted.
And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.
I care for riches, to make gifts.
If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.
A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.
Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.
Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.
Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.
Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
Delusive hope still points to distant good.
Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.
In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.
None wise dares hopeless venture.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]
Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.
When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.
What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.
